"Lao An, come, let's have a drink." Yingcheng at night has already fallen into darkness, only a few places are still lit up, although Yingcheng is bigger and more prosperous than Jicheng, but it can't be compared with Jicheng at night, because Jicheng has no curfew, and businesses are still open normally at night.

Closing the door, Guo Han looked at the person opposite and said with a smile. The person he called Lao An was the owner of this inn, and of course, he was also the National Security Bureau's agent in Chu.

"After several years of hard work, there is finally a result, I am happy today, Lao An, we have to get drunk today." Guo Han smiled and said openly.

"You can get drunk and rest, you can sleep tomorrow, I have to get up early in the morning to work!" You have fun, can I do whatever I want? An Jie smiled.

Looking at An Jie, Guo Han put down the cup, "Lao An, how many years have you not been drunk?" ”

Listening to Guo Han's words, the smile on An Jie's face slowly faded, frowned, thought for a while, and then said: "It should be the day I set off seven years ago, my boss accompanied me to have a good drink, and I had a bad headache when I set off the next day." ”

"It's really hard for you people." Guo Han sympathized and said, they are all doing the work of spies, but the other party is really too bitter compared to himself, he walks in the sun openly, and the people he interacts with are all high-ranking officials and nobles, he eats and drinks spicy, and he can have fun everywhere, but An Jie will never see the sunshine when he sits on the sitting.

An Jie smiled: "After being away from home for seven years, it is not bitter to say that life is not bitter, but it is bitter in my heart." Where do you dare to get drunk, for fear of being drunk and saying something that shouldn't be said, everything is cautious, the first two years were fine, in recent years, with the strong rise of our Han Dynasty, the ghost of Chu has also become stronger, and the investigation of our Han State National Security Bureau personnel is becoming more and more difficult to mix. ”

"You've been out for seven years. Didn't apply for a transfer back? Guo Han asked.

"It's hard to get out of the way, you can see it, the scale of my inn, the grade is also a few in Yingcheng, how can I go, even if I want to go, the top won't let me go, I think only one day when the Han army enters the city, I can see the light of day again!" An Jie sighed.

"Where there is effort, there is a reward, at least. You're a major general now, much better than me. Guo Han smiled and raised his glass.

"I hope I can live long enough to wear that beautiful gift, come, don't talk about it, Lao Guo, let's have a drink." An Jie raised his cup, touched it with Guo Han, tilted his neck, and drank it all.

"Of course you can wear that gift. Maybe in a few years, after we call, you will have one more star on your shoulder! Guo Han said with a smile.

"You've managed to convince Fan Zhuo, right?" Filling the wine glass for Guo Han, An Jie asked.

Of course, it wasn't just that he was persuaded to lobby Huang Xie. He was very happy to dispel the plan to send troops to our Han Dynasty, and more successfully reduced the price of silk by two percent, and also developed our new technology of silk reeling and satin! Guo Han said proudly: "In this world." There's no better way to deal with someone who sees money! ”

"You're really right for anything, and you've done business by the way!" An Jie smiled bitterly: "It's not like us Luo, earn a little hard-earned money!" ”

"Are you having a hard time right now?" Guo Han laughed. "Lao An, you don't think this is just a business, do you?"

"How?" An Jie immediately sensed the meaning of Guo Han's words, paused, and shook his head again: "Forget it, this is not what I should ask." ”

Guo Han's hands shook wildly, "No, no, no, when I came this time, the boss had already instructed me to reveal this plan to you, because there are many things that need to be taken over by you." ”

An Jie took a deep breath, stared at Guo Han, and stopped talking.

"Our Han has always been extremely strict in the blockade of new technologies, but why did we so readily agree to export these two latest technologies to the Chu State this time?" Guo Han asked with a smile.

"That's exactly what I don't understand." Anjie said.

"These two things were actually developed as early as two years ago, and they were specially developed for the Chu State with a purpose. After it was developed, because the time was not yet ripe, the news was blocked, and after two years, it was finally time. ”

"You're fooling me!" An Jie shook his head.

"A long time ago, the Great Han began to formulate a plan against the state of Chu." Guo Han raised his head and looked up at the roof, his thoughts had drifted to the past. "The formulators of this plan are Dawang, Jiang Yizheng, Yan Yizheng, and of course, Minister Cao, I was the first batch of spies to enter this plan after this plan was formed. At that time, I was still the owner of a small silk village, and I smiled happily when I could earn a tael of silver a day. ”

"Now you're making money every day!" An Jie said with a smile.

"That's not mine, that's the state." Guo Han raised his glass and took a sip gently, "If you want to unify the Central Plains and establish a unified country, the most difficult thing to deal with is not Daqin, but Chu, this is the assertion of the king, because compared to Qin's reckless army, they only need to fight a few defeats to be able to smash up, but Chu is different, this country has a vast territory and a large number of people, although wealth is uneven, but the common people are far from the point where they can't eat, and the social contradictions are relatively small, and for a country with a stable social structure, It's hard to break him from the outside. Therefore, this plan is aimed at the most affluent Huguang region of Chu State. The goal is to make this area of Chu State chaotic. ”

"This ......" An Jie's eyes widened and he looked at Guo Han, "I don't understand, how does the silk business have anything to do with messing up this area?" ”

Guo Han smiled, "It's a big deal." You are in Yingcheng, didn't you notice that Yingcheng has begun to import a large amount of rice and noodles from our Han Dynasty? ”

"There is this, I always thought it was because of the low price of food in our Han."

"No, this is because the grain production in the Huguang region of the Chu State is no longer enough to supply, do you know what those fertile fields in these areas are doing now?"

An Jie shook his head.

"Now most of them have been planted with mulberry trees and raised silkworms." Guo Han said proudly: "Now that I think about it, the king's foresight is really breathtaking. Our Han people are rich, do you know why the king vigorously advocates wearing silk clothes? ”

"I always thought that this was the king's emphasis on breaking the old custom of not allowing the people to wear silk clothes, and emphasizing the equality of all people." An Jie spread his hands.

"Then you are very wrong, because we need to import a large amount of silk from Chu State, and raise the price again and again, and the silver we have spent on the silk we have imported from Chu State and the silver we have earned over the years will surprise you when you say it."

"Get to the point!" Anjie knocked on the table.

"That's the point!" Guo Han said with a smile: "Because of the huge profits, the Chu people began to destroy the fertile land in the Huguang area and plant mulberry trees, in order to produce more silk and sell it to our Han. That's why they started to have food supply problems. ”

"I see, this is really insidious!" An Jie subconsciously said, watching Guo Han smile and not speak, only then did he realize that he had lost his words, "It's smart, smart." However, although there is a shortage of food in these areas, this is not fatal to the Chu State! ”

"Of course, this is only the first step, we have successfully done it, the second step, we are to reduce the price, in addition to the low sales price of silk, import more silk, so that more Han people can afford to wear silk clothes, of course, more, we will sell by sea, which will allow the Chu people to destroy more fertile land, grow mulberry and raise silkworms."

"But this method is inevitably too slow." An Jie remembered that he didn't know how long he would stay in this Yingcheng, and he couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

"So there is a third step, newer machines, to reduce their costs, do you know the efficiency of the latest silk reeling machines and looms?"

"One person can work on top of ten people before!" Guo Han said with a smile. "Do you know what that means?"

An Jie took a deep breath, he had been in business for a long time, and his head was naturally full of business experience, "The decline in labor costs will greatly reduce costs." ”

"Yes, but this is for people like Fan Zhuo, what about those who rely on this craft to eat?" Guo Han asked rhetorically.

An Jie thought deeply, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, it turned out that the biggest key was here, the emergence of these two machines has increased the efficiency by ten times, the original thousand people can do the work, and now a hundred people can do it, so what about the remaining nine hundred people? They will be smashed alive, and in the Huguang area of Chu State, how many people survive in this industry, An Jie also vaguely knows a rough idea.

"Do you understand now? These people have been smashed their jobs, a large amount of fertile land has been planted with mulberry trees, what are these people going to survive? ”

"Messy!"

"Of course, of course there will be chaos, whoever has no food to eat will be angry, a few people have no food to eat, they can be beggars, but thousands of people have no food, where to beg, a few years ago, many of the people who set out with you are now doing these jobs in that place! They will be the creators of chaos. Guo Han smiled. There will be no chaos in the Chu country, and we will create a little chaos for him. ”

"Didn't the Chu people notice this problem?" An Jie asked.

"Hehe, such a clever strategy, even if it is like Huang Xie, I'm afraid he didn't understand it, when he understands it, it's too late, and when it really comes to that time, do you think people like Fan Zhuo will give up that high profit because someone rebelled, all they can think of must be suppression, it must be to make an example." Guo Han raised his wine glass high and said to An Jie. (To be continued......)